The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers

The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers by Paracelsus

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Although this would not be attested by those who are falsely considered your authentic fathers and saints, yet the ancient Emerald Table shews more art and experience in Philosophy, Alchemy, Magic, and the like, than could ever be taught by you and your crowd of followers. If you do not yet understand, from the aforesaid facts, what and how great treasures these are, tell me why no prince or king was ever able to subdue the Egyptians.

Then tell me why the Emperor Diocletian ordered all the Spagyric books to be burnt so far as he could lay his hands upon them. Unless the contents of those books had been known, they would have been obliged to bear still his intolerable yoke, - a yoke, O Sophist, which shall one day be put upon the neck of yourself and your colleagues. His father, a physician of repute, possessor of curious books and his mother, matron of a hospital. Theophrastus, born a year after their marriage. Said to have been emasculated from infancy which accounts for his beardless face and feminine appearance and hatred of women.

Studied Alchemy, surgery and medicine with his father. Stimulated to the higher studies by works of Isaac Holland. Continued his studies under monks in Convent of St.

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Andrew of Savon, later University of Basel. Finally devoted himself to occult science under illustrious Johann Trithemius, Abbott of Spanheim. Later studied under Sigismund Hagger. In Muscovy was made prisoner and taken to court of the " Great Cham. Thus initiated he traveled through India and Egypt. Salt represented the body; mercury represented the spirit imagination, moral judgment, and the higher mental faculties ; sulphur represented the soul the emotions and desires. By understanding the chemical nature of the tria prima , a physician could discover the means of curing disease.

With every disease, the symptoms depended on which of the three principals caused the ailment. He was probably the first to give the element zinc zincum its modern name, [41] [42] in about , likely based on the sharp pointed appearance of its crystals after smelting zinke translating to "pointed" in German.

Paracelsus invented chemical therapy, chemical urinalysis, and suggested a biochemical theory of digestion.

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Paracelsus in the beginning of the sixteenth century had unknowingly observed hydrogen as he noted that in reaction when acids attack metals , gas was a by-product. However neither Paracelsus nor de Mayerne proposed that hydrogen could be a new element. His hermetical beliefs were that sickness and health in the body relied upon the harmony of humans microcosm and nature macrocosm. He took a different approach from those before him, using this analogy not in the manner of soul-purification but in the manner that humans must have certain balances of minerals in their bodies,and that certain illnesses of the body had chemical remedies that could cure them.

As a result of this hermetical idea of harmony, the universe's macrocosm was represented in every person as a microcosm. An example of this correspondence is the doctrine of signatures used to identify curative powers of plants. If a plant looked like a part of the body, then this signified its ability to cure this given anatomy. Therefore, the root of the orchid looks like a testicle and can therefore heal any testicle-associated illness.

As humans must ward off the influence of evil spirits with morality, they must also ward off diseases with good health. Paracelsus believed that true anatomy could only be understood once the nourishment for each part of the body was discovered. He believed that one must therefore know the influence of the stars on these particular body parts.

However, 'poisons' were not necessarily something negative, in part because related substances interacted, but also because only the dose determined if a substance was poisonous or not. Paracelsus claimed the complete opposite of Galen, in that like cures like. If a star or poison caused a disease, then it must be countered by another star or poison. Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism that is pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, humans included, was 'God'.

His beliefs put him at odds with the Catholic Church, for which there necessarily had to be a difference between the creator and the created.

Paracelsus also described four elemental beings, each corresponding to one of the four elements: Salamanders , which correspond to fire; Gnomes , corresponding to earth; Undines , corresponding to water; and Sylphs , corresponding to air. Paracelsus is freqently credited with reintroducing opium to Western Europe during the German Renaissance. He extolled the benefits of opium, and of a pill he called laudanum, which has frequently been asserted by others to have been an opium tincture. Paracelsus did not leave a complete recipe, and the known ingredients differ considerably from 17th-century laudanum.

Paracelsus invented, or at least named a sort of liniment , opodeldoc , a mixture of soap in alcohol , to which camphor and sometimes a number of herbal essences, most notably wormwood , were added. Paracelsus's recipe forms the basis for most later versions of liniment. This specific empirical knowledge originated from his personal experiences as an army physician in the Venetian wars. Paracelsus demanded that the application of cow dung, feathers and other noxious concoctions to wounds be surrendered in favor of keeping the wounds clean, stating, "If you prevent infection, Nature will heal the wound all by herself.

He advocated for cleanliness and protection of wounds, as well as the regulation of diet. Popular ideas of the time opposed these theories and suggested sewing or plastering wounds. In his first medical publication, a short pamphlet on syphilis treatment that was also the most comprehensive clinical description the period ever produced, he wrote a clinical description of syphilis in which he maintained that it could be treated by carefully measured doses of mercury. Hippocrates put forward the theory that illness was caused by an imbalance of the four humors: These ideas were further developed by Galen into an extremely influential and highly persistent set of medical beliefs that were to last until the mids.

Contrarily, Paracelsus believed in three humors: He believed that body organs functioned alchemically, that is, they separated pure from impure. Paracelsus supplemented and challenged this view with his beliefs that illness was the result of the body being attacked by outside agents. He objected to excessive bloodletting , saying that the process disturbed the harmony of the system, and that blood could not be purified by lessening its quantity. Paracelsus gave birth to clinical diagnosis and the administration of highly specific medicines.

This was uncommon for a period heavily exposed to cure-all remedies. The Germ Theory was anticipated by him as he proposed that diseases were entities in themselves, rather than states of being.

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Paracelsus first introduced the black hellebore to European pharmacology and prescribed the correct dosage to alleviate certain forms of arteriosclerosis. Lastly, he recommended the use of iron for "poor blood" and is credited with the creation of the terms "chemistry," "gas," and "alcohol". During Paracelsus's lifetime and after his death, he was often celebrated as a wonder healer and investigator of those folk medicines that were rejected by the fathers of medicine e.

It was believed that he had success with his own remedies curing the plague, according to those that revered him. Since effective medicines for serious infectious diseases weren't invented before the 19th century, Paracelsus came up with many prescriptions and concoctions on his own. For infectious diseases with fever, it was common to prescribe diaphoretics and tonics that at least gave temporary relief.

Also many of his remedies contained the famed " theriac ", a preparation derived from oriental medicine sometimes containing opium. The following prescription by Paracelsus was dedicated to the village of Sterzing. One of his most overlooked achievements was the systematic study of minerals and the curative powers of alpine mineral springs. His countless wanderings also brought him deep into many areas of the Alps , where such therapies were already practiced on a less common scale than today.

Paracelsus extended his interest in chemistry and biology to what is now considered toxicology. He clearly expounded the concept of dose response in his Third Defense , where he stated that "Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison. Paracelsus also encouraged using experimental animals to study both beneficial and toxic chemical effects.

In his work Von den Krankeiten Paracelsus writes: This opinion and idea are the origin of the disease both in children and adults. In children the case is also imagination, based not on thinking but on perceiving, because they have heard or seen something.

The reason is this: The oldest surviving portrait Paracelsus is a woodcut by Augustin Hirschvogel , published in , still during Paracelsus's lifetime. A still older painting by Quentin Matsys has been lost, but at least three 17th-century copies survive, one by an anonymous Flemish artist, kept in the Louvre, one by Peter Paul Rubens , kept in Brussels, and one by a student of Rubens, now kept in Uppsala. Another portrait by Hirschvogel, dated , claims to show Paracelsus "at the age of 47" sue aetatis 47 , i. In this portrait, Paracelsus is shown as holding his sword, gripping the spherical pommel with the right hand.

The so-called "Rosicrucian portrait", published with Philosophiae magnae Paracelsi Heirs of Arnold Birckmann, Cologne, , is closely based on the portrait by Hirschvogel but mirrored, so that now Paracelsus's left hand rests on the sword pommel , adding a variety of additional elements: Paracelsus was especially venerated by German Rosicrucians , who regarded him as a prophet, and developed a field of systematic study of his writings, which is sometimes called " Paracelsianism ", or more rarely "Paracelsism".

Francis Bacon warned against Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians, judging that "the ancient opinion that man was microcosmus " had been "fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists". Johannes Huser of Basel c. The prophecies contained in Paracelsus's works on astrology and divination began to be separately edited as Prognosticon Theophrasti Paracelsi in the early 17th century. His prediction of a "great calamity just beginning" indicating the End Times was later associated with the Thirty Years' War , and the identification of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden as the "Lion from the North" is based in one of Paracelsus's "prognostications" referencing Jeremiah 5: Carl Gustav Jung studied Paracelsus intensively.

His work Mysterium Conjunctionis further drew from alchemical symbolism as a tool in psychotherapy.

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Following Paracelsus's path, it was Jung who first theorised that the symbolic language of alchemy was an expression of innate but unconscious psychological processes. A number of fictionalised depictions of Paracelsus have been published in modern literature. Arthur Schnitzler wrote a verse play Paracelsus in Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer wrote a novel trilogy Paracelsus-Trilogie , published during — Mika Waltari 's Mikael Karvajalka has a scene fictionalising Paracelsus's acquisition of his legendary executioner's sword.

An alchemist based on him named Van Hohenheim is one of the main characters of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist. The Rose of Paracelsus: German Wikisource has original text related to this article: Because of the work of Karl Widemann , who copied over 30 years the work of Paracelsus, many unpublished works survived.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Egg, near Einsiedeln , Schwyz [2] present-day Switzerland. Salzburg , Archbishopric of Salzburg present-day Austria. This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: January Learn how and when to remove this template message. Bittel, "Ist Paracelsus oder geboren? Welt 16 , p. Strebel, Theophrastus von Hohenheim: The most frequently cited assumption that Paracelsus was born in late is due to Sudhoff, Paracelsus.

Ein deutsches Lebensbild aus den Tagen der Renaissance , p. The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. University of Chicago Press. Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University: Archived from the original on 28 July Retrieved 9 February Publications during his lifetime were under the name Theophrastus ab Hohenheim or Theophrastus Paracelsus , the additional name Aureolus is recorded in Pagel , 5f.

Herald of Modern Toxicology". Retrieved 23 September Gruber , p. Rudolf Wolf, Biographien zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz vol. The claim that Paracelsus was of common birth from both his father's and his mother's side was forwarded as early as by Thomas Erastus who was hostile to Paracelsus. Erastus also cited the possibility that Paracelsus was native to a place called Altus Nidus Hohes Nest in Einsiedeln and that the name Paracelsus might be derived from this. It was controversially discussed in the first half of the 19th century but by the s was apparently no longer considered tenable; see: Eduard Schubert, Paracelsus-Forschungen vol.

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